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Godalming Photographic Club |
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Photography |
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Techniques, |
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Hints & Tips |
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Starting
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You
have already considered the mount colour |
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Other
points - fashion. Avoid breaking with current fashion! (eg flush
mounting and black mounts, both firm favourites at one time,
are now more or less passe). Your aim is to earn marks and judges
are a conservative lot where mounts are concerned. |
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Width
of border needs to be considered. With big prints one is limited
by the rule that for inter-club competitions in the SPA the maximum
size of mount has to be 20" x 16" or 50cm x 40cm.
This has killed the 20" x 16" print stone
dead.
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basic rules here are two - that the top border and the side borders
should be the same and that the bottom border should be about
20% wider. This is to overcome the optical illusion that
if the bottom is the same as the top, the picture appears to
have been mounted too low. Another maxim often heard is that
the smaller the print the larger the mount - but this means relatively!
Don't put a 7 x 5 print on a 20 x 16 mount. |
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To
begin measure the picture to be mounted. If it has a border,
is there to be a space between that and the inner edge of the
matt? To those measurements add the desired width of the matt,
top and sides and bottom. If the result is more than 20" x 16"
one's ideas have to be scaled down to what will fit the rules. |
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When
the picture measurements and matt measurements are added up you
will know the size to cut the mount to. Mark that on the back
of the nice clean board and cut it out with the craft knife on
the cutting mat. |
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From
a talk to GPC by Ron Head - January 2007 |
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